It’s still binary and hypothetical, but after speaking with many professors and students at McGill, I realized that most efforts to encourage extracurricular work are fragmented and lack interdisciplinary collaboration. This led to the idea of a digital idea lab, structured into three layers. At the top, we have scholars, industry partners, or anyone seeking creative human input. At the bottom is a community of students or motivated individuals eager to solve problems and contribute ideas. To manage information overload, the middle layer employs an ML model to aggregate and build on the creative solutions emerging from the bottom layer.